Churn.



No. 727,094. PATENTED MAY 5, 1003.

J. W.V colmmfr.

, GHURN.

-APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 1a, 1002.

N0 MODEL.

Patented May 5, 1903.

ATENT Fries.

.IOIIN W. CONNETT, OF PAWNEE STATION, KANSAS.

CHURN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,094, dated May 5, 190s.

Application led June 18, 1902. Serial No. 112,236. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern;

Be it known that I, JOHN W. CONNETT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Paw! nee Station, in the county of Bourbon and State ofKansas, have inventeda new and useful Churn, of which the following is aspeciication. A

The invention' relates to improvements in churns. Y

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofchurns and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive one capableof rapidly producing butter and adapted to be operated by footpower andby a simple downward pressure, thereby making the work light and easy.

The invention consists in' the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a churn constructed inaccordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of the cover or lid of thechurn-body and the dasher-shaft which is carried by the same.

Like numerals of reference designate cor responding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

1 designates a churn-body provided wit-h-V suitable legs 2 and having acover 1, which may be secured to thechurn-body in any de# sired manner.The churn-body is provided at its bottom with a centrally-arrangedbearing 3 to receive a lower pivot or journal of a dasher 5, and thelatter consists of a cen-k tral stem 6 and a series of blades 7,arranged at right angles to each other and disposed atA regularintervals, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3; but any other desiredarrangement of blades may be employed. Y

The stern ofthe dasher is provided with an extension 8, arranged in abearing 9 of the cover and passing through the same and havingagear-wheel 10 keyed or otherwise secured to it. The outer end of thestem 10 is journaled in a suitable bearing of a frame 11, and thegear-wheel 10 meshes with a similar horizontal gear wheel 12, whichprojects slightly beyond the edge of the cover and which meshes withteeth 13 of a combined crank and y wheel 14. The teeth of thegear-wheels may be either bevel or straight spu r-teeth, and when theWheel Mis rotated by the means hereinafter described motion will becommunicated to thedasher, and the rotation of the latter will rapidlyagitate the contents of the churn-body and quickly produce butter. Tliisarrangement of gearing also permits the cover and the dasher to bereadily removed from the churn-body without detaching the operatingmechanism.

The frame 11 is composed of bars 15, 16, and 17. The bars 15 and 16 arearranged parallel with each other and are bent into approximatelyrectangular form over the gear-wheels 10 and 12, and their terminals arebent outward tofform feet and are perforated for the reception offastening devices for securing them to the cover. The bar 17, `which, isapproximately L-shaped, connects the bars 15 and 16 and is secured tothe cover to form a brace. The gear-wheel12 is mounted on a Vverticalshaft 18, which is journaled in the cover and in a suitable bearing ofthe bar 16 of the frame ll.

The combined liy and crank wheel is journaled on a stub-shaft 19, and itis provided with a wrist-pin 20, which is connected to the upper end ofa pitman 21. The wrist-pin is .preferably mounted upon a removable orseparate plate A22,V of approximately sector shape, rivetedv orotherwise secured to the wheel. This sectorshaped plate, it will beobserved, connects the hub of the y-wheel with the rim ofsaid wheel uponthe outer side of the latter, the gear-section 20a of said l wheel beingsecured, by means of pins or rivets 21a, to the inner side of the wheeladjacent to the churn-body and in such a manner as to mesh with theteeth of the gear- Wheel12. The stub-aXle 19, upon which the combinediy, crank, and gear wheel is journaled, has a support upon the upperside ofv an arch or brace 22, secured upon the side of the churn-bodyand extending between the legs or uprights 2 2. By this construction thefly-wheel and its attachments are very firmly supported, and the pitman21, instead of being connected at its upper end directly to thefly-wheel or to the gear-section 20, is pivotally connected with thesector-shaped plate 22, thus enabling the pivotal connection to be madeat any desired distance from the center of the wheel and also enablingthe said pitman to be set out from the body of the churn to a pointwhere it cannot by any possibility rub against and interfere with therotation of the liy-wheel. The lower end of the pitman 21 is connectedby a swivel-joint 23 with a foot-lever 24, fulcrumed at its rear end 25at the back of the churn to a suitable support 26 and provided near itsfront end with an opening 27. A guide 28, consisting of a rod, extendsthrough the opening 27 and has a coiled spring 29 disposed on it andinterposed between the lever and a bottom conmeeting-bar 30 and adaptedto lift the footlever after the same has been forced downward by theoperator, thereby rendering the work of operating the churn light andeasy. The support 26 preferably consists of a vertical bar secured tothe rear of the churnbody and to a connecting-bar 3l. The connectingbars30 and 3l are secured to the lower ends of the legs 2 of the churn-body,as clearly shown in Figs. l and 2Q It will be seen that the chu rn isexceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is easilyoperated, and that after the operation of churning has been completedthe cover and the dasher may be readily lifted from the churn-bodywithout removing the operating mechanism.

What I claim is- The combination of a churn-body, legs supporting thesame, an arched cross-piece disposed between said legs, a stub-axlesupported by said arch, a fly-wheel mounted on said stub and having aconcentric gear-section on its inner face, a sector-plate connecting thehub and the rim of the fiy-wheel upon the outer face of the latterrapitman connecting a wrist pin upon said sector-plate with aspring-supported treadle, a detachable cover carrying a revolubledasher, a gear Wheel y upon the stem of said dasher, and intermediategear meshing with the gear upon the dasher-stem and also with thegear-section upon the inner face of the fly-wheel.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN W. ooNNTT.

Witnesses:

B. HUDSON, J. M. HUMPHREY.

